We believe great ideas rarely come about in isolation

South Park Commons is a community of builders, technologists, and domain-experts that challenge you, encourage you, and help you build and validate your ideas. People join us at every stage of their career: from just out of school to mid-career faculty, from first-time entrepreneur to serial founders with successful exits. We leverage our collective expertise to help our members discover new ways of impacting the world.

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Members

Quality over quantity. 700+ members from over 150 professional and academic networks.

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Andrew
Previously founded and exited from a company called Velvet, which made AI tools for private finance.
Sam
Sam is a 2x YC founder (with two exits). He has ten years of experience building ML products, ran photos at Facebook, built Dropbox's 0-1 AI incubator, and led the Fivestars product pivot to Payments (resulting in a $317M exit).
Saumya
Currently hacking on projects at the intersection of education x AI. Previously Product at Synthesis, Growth at ClassDojo, and 7 years at Google in a variety of roles (Product Manager on Google Classroom, Google Maps, Software Engineer in Area 120 & AdMob)
Rajiv
Curtis
2020-12-10: • Working on: Electric Capital’s open source developer report (shipped this morning here), recruiting infrastructure for SPC. • Looking for: Nothing at the moment • Ask about: crypto, devtools, fundraising
Alex
Currently exploring new areas. Formerly first PM and first of many other roles at Cresta going from 0 -> unicorn and prior to Cresta, PM @ Google on Photos, Lens, and Search.
Charles
Design prototyper and co-founder of Frisson Labs. We're building AI companions that you'll cherish! In my free time I love designing board games and nerding out about history.
George
George is researching cryptocurrency/web3 ideas for founding, investment, advisory, and incubation. He was previously the COO for dYdX (https://dydx.exchange/), the largest decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies and creator of its own layer 1 chain for crypto perpetual trading. He has extensive experience operating in crypto (as an operator at dYdX, as one of the product leads for OlympusDAO, as a consultant for Anchorage, and as an investor, advisor, and angel in 10-20 other cryptocurrency companies). Prior to this, George worked in technology and venture backed startups (founder/CEO of Moonship - a social ecommerce company backed by Accel, Max Levchin, etc. and AirCare - a cardiology readmission healthcare tech company backed by First Round Capital, NIH SBIR grants, etc. ), adtech product lead at Facebook that grew the adtech groups at Facebook from 0->200 people and to billions of revenue, in management consulting roles at McKinsey, and in finance/investing roles at Goldman Sachs and TPG Axon.
Kevin
Studied CS @ UWaterloo, learned to be a SWE. Spent past 5 years as a PM. Marketplace PM @ Lime (scooters, Series A -> D), then founding PM @ Kikoff (fintech, Seed -> Series B). Working to make the world more abundant with tools that give humans leverage.
Sean
exploring realtime video generation, executive functioning copilots. all about unlocking new frontiers. infinite fun. prev building prototyping tools @ Google

Diversity of Expertise

A Modern Day Xerox Parc

Our members have a diversity of expertise. After their time at SPC, a third join academia, research organizations, and philanthropies.

south park community domain experts, founders, academics, operators, open source contributors, founding engineers, and more

Organizations domain experts join after SPC

anthropic logoaspen institutechan zuckerberg initiativegoogle aiopen philanthrophy projectgenerally intelligentopen aiuniversity of california, berkeley

Companies

Over 150 companies and non-profits founded that have raised more than $3.5B in capital.

Sector
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SPC Company Founders Sector Stage Founded Investors
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Company
Founders
Sector
Stage
Founded
Investors
Pratyaksh Sharma, Prasad Kawthekar
B2B SaaS
Seed
2020
Point72
Helen Zhou, Arnaud Maximilien Benard
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
Khosla Ventures
Ross Lazerowitz, Nick DiRienzo
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Afore Capital
Shreyas Jaganmohan, Varun Khurana
B2B SaaS
Seed
2022
Slow Ventures
Kanishk Vashisht, Reginald Long
B2B SaaS
Seed
2023
Caffeinated Capital, SciFi VC
William Usdin, Zo Ahmed
Consumer
Seed
2023
Shine Capital
Remi Gai
Cryptocurrency
Seed
2022
1k(x)
Zain Memon
Consumer Software
Seed
2021
Khosla Ventures
Hongzi Mao
Cryptocurrency
Seed
2023
Polychain, Inflection
Nick Shelly, Jacinda Shelly
Healthcare/Bio
Seed
2019
Y-Combinator, Initialized Capital

Forums

Community-led learning intensives on topics like AI, crypto, biotech, climate tech, the creator economy, and more.

Squads

Small weekly peer groups focused on either personal growth or building, with a focus on support, accountability, and creative exchange.

Speaker Series

Exclusive conversations with experts in tech, venture, science, politics, and more. Past speakers include Ben Thompson, Julia Galef, Reid Hoffman, Chris Dixon, Alfred Lin, Salman Khan, and Susan Desmond-Hellmann, among many others.

Collaborative Spaces

We have community spaces in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco and the SoHo neighborhood in New York City to facilitate IRL connection and collaboration.

Community

50% of members find a co-founder or early collaborator within the community, many others get hired at SPC network organizations, and nearly all form deep relationships that persist long after graduation.

Speaker Series

Exclusive conversations with experts in tech, venture, science, politics, and more. Past speakers include Ben Thompson, Julia Galef, Reid Hoffman, Chris Dixon, Alfred Lin, Salman Khan, and Bruce Schneier, among many others.

Network

Access a network of domain experts in AI, Crypto, Fintech, etc., and founders and executives from seed stage to IPO companies such as Figma, Airtable, Pilot, SpaceX, and more.

Customers

Find early customers and beta testers within the community.

Fundraising

Raise funding from SPC Fund alongside a network of top funds and angels.

Credits

$200k in credits for cloud providers and most popular tools for startups.